At the time of publication, Bickham Coal Company was carrying out various environmental studies, particularly on water usage and management for the life of a mine, for more information click here.

Location: 12km south-east of Murrurundi and 25km north of Scone
District: Upper Hunter Shire (previously Murrurundi, Merriwa and Scone Shires)
Land area: 1,154 hectares
Exploration Licences held: EL5888 and EL5306
Bore holes: 115 in total

• 2 Water Bores, 200mm diameter, seams cored
• 13 Fully cored bores
• 68 open holes, geophysically logged
• 32 Water piezometers     
• Further Investigations continuing

Geophysical investigations:

• Ground Magnetic Intensity Surveys
• Seismic Surveys

Open cut resources:

• East Pit: 2.4km x 1.0km; 30.1 Mt @ 6.27:1
• West Pit: 2.0km x  0.5km; 16.6 Mt @ 7.71:1
• Total: 46.7 million tonnes @ 6.8:1
• No low ratio subcrop coal at low wall

Geology:

• Seams dip @ 1:4 (14°) North West
• East and West Pits divided by structural anomaly.
• Subcrop deeply weathered at Low wall.
• The E, F & G seams constitute 71% of total resource

Bore Core Quality Summary

The image below demonstrates the BCC Exploration License area (red), purchased Bickham land (purple) and a footprint of the Conceptual Open Cut Excavation (shaded black).